The Japanese comic, written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, follows a student who stumbles across a supernatural notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. He uses this mystical object to destroy those he deems unworthy of life.

“Death Note” was originally set up at Warner Bros. but was later picked up by Netflix back in April.

Dafoe recently joined the cast of “Justice League” as Nuidis Vulko. The actor also stars in Yimou Zhang’s “The Great Wall,” out February 17, 2017, and forms part of Terry Gillam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” which also includes Adam Driver and Stellan Skarsgård.